Word: capitalisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine times he waged unsuccessful compaigns for political offices (State treasurer, Mayor, Governor, U. S. Senator). His political creed: Gain office in the legislatures of capitalism to carry on the war for a peaceful revolution within their very walls.
Bitter, humorless, antagonizing more than he converted, Charles Ruthenberg split the Socialist party in 1919, became leader of the small Communist wing, while the late Eugene Victor Debs remained leader of the Socialists. Comrade Ruthenberg's ultimate purpose was "revolution without violence"; he advocated strikes "because they are a...
"There is no ragged proletariat in Russia, but a well-ordered community." Thus, with a somewhat defensive air, spoke William H. Hamilton, Assistant Vice President of the Guaranty Co., Manhattan, as he returned last week from a tour of Soviet Russia, made in company with Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. & Mrs...
Like a stern grey cat clawing feathers one by one from a gaudy canary Dictator Stalin of Russia has spent eleven months mercilessly divesting of his powers the once great Gregory Zinoviev, "spiritual son of Lenin," "bomb-boy of Bolshevism," arch-director of plots in every land to subvert world...
"Boss" Stalin, officially Secretary General of the Communist Party, held back his annual report on internal conditions in Soviet Russia, and spoke in general terms of foreign affairs: "World Capitalism is still attempting: first, to encircle our country economically; second, to effect our political isolation through a concealed blockade; third...